My Birding Goals

As an eBird user, I get easy access to all sorts of birding statistics. This page explains the ones I care about most. They're in bold below.

Canadian Regions

My most ambitious goal is 50 species in all 291 of Canada's eBird regions. Regions such as Nunatsiavut-Nain in Labrador are unreachable by road, but that just means more wildnerness exploration!

Canada: 153/291 eBird regions at 50+ (53%)

Provinces & Territories (with # of eBird Regions at 50+):

  • British Columbia: 28/28
  • Alberta: 19/19
  • Saskatchewan: 15/18
  • Manitoba: 3/23
  • Ontario: 50/50
  • Quebec: 6/100
  • New Brunswick: 15/15
  • Nova Scotia: 2/18
  • Prince Edward Island: 3/3
  • Newfoundland & Labrador: 10/11
  • Yukon: 1/1
  • Northwest Territories: 1/2
  • Nunavut: 0/3

Another statistic I monitor that is not tracked by eBird is the sum of my Canadian region lists (the sum of my lists in Hastings County Ontario, Northumberland County Ontario, Central Coast BC, Calgary Alberta, and all other regions). I was pleased when this number exceeded 10,000 and look forward to the next milestone of 15,000!

Sum of Canadian Region Life Lists: 12,639

Canadian Provinces & Territories

My goal is 200 species in every Canadian province and 100 species in every territory. Nunavut is a challenge I relish!

Life Lists:

  • British Columbia: 238
  • Alberta: 199
  • Saskatchewan: 183
  • Manitoba: 152
  • Ontario: 294
  • Quebec: 181
  • New Brunswick: 154
  • Nova Scotia: 123
  • Prince Edward Island: 107
  • Newfoundland & Labrador: 135
  • Yukon: 113
  • Northwest Territories: 95
  • Nunavut: 9

I also have a goal to get the sum of provincial and territorial life lists over 2000.

Sum of Canadian Province/Territory Life Lists: 1983

Canada

My goal is 400 species in my home country of Canada. I am also interested in the long (very long!) term goal of getting my Canada life list higher than my United States life list, which stands at 429.

Canada Life List: 394

Ontario

My goal is 300 species in my home province of Ontario.

Ontario Life List: 294

Local Ontario Counties

I live in Hastings County, Ontario and my goal is to get as many species in Hastings and all nearby counties. Now that these four counties are at 200, I am working on getting the next closest counties to 100 and getting the total of my four "home counties" to 1000:

Ontario County Life Lists:

  • Prince Edward: 257
  • Hastings: 229
  • Northumberland: 216
  • Lennox & Addington: 206

Yard

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, I decided to focus on seeing as many birds as possible on my property. I don't get many birds near my house because I live in the city and don't have feeders, but my deck overlooks the river so I get swimmers such as geese and ducks and flybys such as gulls and the occasional tern or osprey.

Some top target birds for my yardlist are Sandhill Crane, Golden Eagle, and hawks.

Yard Life List: 88 (most recent addition: Greater White-fronted Goose)